Antivirus Defence
Posted: August 30, 2013
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Ranking: | 8,286 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 815 |
First Seen: | August 30, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | September 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Antivirus Defence is a new member of Winwebsec, the long-lived family of anti-malware and anti-virus programs that display fraudulent security information, block various Windows programs and disable some baseline security features without your permission. Antivirus Defence's attacks, which display alerts and scan results for various PC threats that aren't on the affected computers, are intended to make you want to purchase its software to disinfect your PC. However, Antivirus Defence lacks any real disinfection functionality, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers encourage removing Antivirus Defence with real anti-malware programs since Antivirus Defence is a danger to your computer until Antivirus Defence is uninstalled.
The Extra Problems that Come with an Antivirus Scanner that Detects Imaginary Viruses
As a piece of scamware derived from the WinWeb Security family, Antivirus Defence is designed for attacking your computer and misleading you with fake security information, including fraudulent anti-malware scans and various forms of inaccurate pop-up alerts. Although most of Antivirus Defence's aesthetics are given over to maintaining its masquerade as an anti-virus product, Antivirus Defence also includes other functions that are less obvious but more harmful than its fake threat alerts, such as:
- Deleting essential components of the Windows Defender security program.
- Blocking the memory processes of numerous other applications while also generating fake alerts that claim that these applications have been infected, Exceptions are maintained for any programs that are essential for allowing Windows to run.
- Restricting your use of the Windows Task Manager, the Registry Editor and various popular Web browsers (Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, etc).
SpywareRemove.com malware analysts especially recommend trying to identify pop-up warnings that are related to Antivirus Defence infections so that they can be ignored as false alarms. Unusually, at least one known variant of Antivirus Defence has been found using a real threat database 'borrowed' from a third party, but even this variant of Antivirus Defence has not shown any tendencies towards being able to remove malware.
The Proper Defensive Maneuvers Against a Modern Day Antivirus Scam
Although some variants of Antivirus Defence are more dangerous than others and not all variants will include the entirety of the attack feature set noted above, SpywareRemove.com malware experts strongly recommend treating all versions of Antivirus Defence as harmful to your computer. Since Antivirus Defence usually will interfere with the anti-malware applications that could remove Antivirus Defence, you should attempt to prevent Antivirus Defence from launching through using security features like Safe Mode or the Command Prompt. Deleting Antivirus Defence once Antivirus Defence is disabled should be as simple as running a scan by any real anti-malware product.
Antivirus Defence's family has a long history of switching to new names to avoid recognition on the part of its victims. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers can provide many examples of Antivirus Defence's ancestors and close relatives, such as Antivirus Security, System Security, AntiSpyware Pro 2009, Total Security, Total Security 2009, Security Tool, Trojan.RogueAV.a.gen, System Adware Scanner 2010, FakeAlert-KW.e, Advanced Security Tool 2010, System Tool 2011, MS Removal Tool, Antivirus Center, Security Shield, Personal Shield Pro, Advanced PC Shield 2012, Security Sphere 2012 and Futurro Antivirus.
Technical Details
Additional Information
# | Message |
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1 | Antivirus Defence Firewall Alert Antivirus Defence Firewall has blocked a program from accessing the Internet. Internet Explorer Internet Browser is infected with worm SVCHOST.Stealth.Keyloger. This worm is trying to send your credit card details using Internet Explorer Internet Browser to connect to remote host. |
2 | Antivirus Defence Warning Intercepting programs that may compromise your privacy and harm your system have been detected on your PC. Click here to remove them immediately with Antivirus Defence. |
3 | Antivirus Defence Warning Some critical system files of your computer were modified by malicious program. It may cause system instability and data loss. Click here to block unauthorised modification by removing threats (Recommended) |
4 | Antivirus Defence Warning Your PC is still infected with dangerous viruses. Activate antivirus protection to prevent data loss and avoid the theft of your credit card details. |
5 | Spyware.IEMonster activity detected. This is spyware that attempts to steal passwords from Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, Outlook and other programs. Click here to remove it immediately with Antivirus Defence. |
6 | Warning! Application cannot be executed. The file cmd.exe infected. Please activate Antivirus Defence. |
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